Presupposition and implicature in compositional semantics

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sauerland, Uli (Author), Stateva, Penka , 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New york : Palgrave Macmillan , 2007
Series:Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language, and cognition
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Quantifier dependent readings of anaphoric presuppositions
  • 3. Licensing or
  • 4. Free choice and the theory of scalar implicatures
  • 5. Partial variables and specificity
  • 6. Negated antonyms: creating and filling the gap
  • 7. A pragmatic constraint on adverbial quantification
  • 8. Transparency: an incremental theory of presupposition projection
  • 9. Aspects of the pragmatics of plural morphology: on higher-order implicatures